Kyrie Irving對於"地平論"的說法表示道歉 - NBA

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Kyrie Irving on flat-Earth comments: 'I'm sorry'
Kyrie Irving對於"地平論"的說法表示: 我很抱歉

BOSTON (AP) — Kyrie Irving offered a simple message to science teachers
Monday.
Kyrie Irving星期一的時候發了一個簡短的訊息給教科學的老師們。

"I'm sorry," the Boston Celtics star said.
「我很抱歉，」這青賽明星球員說。

And with that, Irving made clear that he regrets publicly saying that the
Earth is flat.
Irving明確表示他對於公開說地球是平的這件事很後悔。

Speaking Monday at the Forbes Under 30 summit in Boston, the flat-Earth topic
that Irving inserted himself into last year was discussed — and the All-Star
guard said he didn't realize the effect that his claim would have once it
went public.
星期一在波士頓的一個論壇上，KI講到去年他把自己放到那個話題裡--這全明星後衛說他
沒有料想到，他的那番"地平論"說法一公開之後會有多大的影響力。

"To all the science teachers, everybody coming up to me like, 'You know I've
got to reteach my whole curriculum?' I'm sorry," Irving said, as the room
attending his session laughed. "I apologize. I apologize."
「那些所有教科學的老師們，像是每個人都跑來跟我說，『你知道我得要重新弄我的課程
嗎？』我很抱歉，」KI說，現場所有人都笑翻了。「我錯了，我錯了。」

Irving said he's since learned certain thoughts are best kept in "intimate
conversations."
KI說從那之後他學到了某些想法最好還是在"私底下"說。

This whole saga started in February 2017, when Irving questioned whether the
Earth is flat on a podcast that came out shortly before All-Star weekend that
year in New Orleans. It became a major story and even NBA Commissioner Adam
Silver — who, like Irving, went to Duke — was asked to offer his opinion.
整個故事要從去年二月說起，當時是在全明賽前，KI在podcast上被問到他認為地球是不是
平的。那之後這故事就夯了，夯到聯盟主席Adam Silver-他也是跟KI一樣是Duke大學畢業
的--他也被問到對於KI地平論有何看法。

"Kyrie and I went to the same college," Silver said then. "He may have taken
some different courses."
「Kyrie跟我上同一所大學，」Silver那時被問到時說。「他可能跟我上的課有些不一
樣。」

Irving indicated in the days and months that followed the podcast that he
initially made the remarks to promote conversation and prove a point how
stories in this social-media age can spread rapidly. But then he told The New
York Times in early June of this year that he was not completely sure whether
the Earth was flat or round.
KI表示，在那podcast之後，他一直說他一開始是想要展開對話，證明說在現在這社群媒體
蓬勃發展的時代，故事可以迅速的傳播。但是之後他在六月初接受紐時訪問時又說他不能
完全確定地球到底是平的還是圓的。

"I do research on both sides," Irving said at the time. "I'm not against
anyone that thinks the Earth is round. I'm not against anyone that thinks
it's flat. I just love hearing the debate."
「我對於這兩邊的說法都做了點研究，」KI在那時說到。「我不是針對地圓論的信仰者，
我也沒有要針對相信地平論的人，我只是喜歡聽到對於這論點的辯論。」

He said Monday he'd like to have the matter put to rest, and noted that this
escapade was a good lesson of how words that come from influential people can
have enormous power.
他星期一的時候說他想把這個話題就到此為止了，他也學到了很好的一課--從有影響力的
人口中說出來的會可以有非常巨大的影響力。

"At the time, I was like huge into conspiracies," Irving said. "And
everybody's been there."
「有時候，我非常著迷陰謀論，」KI說。「大家應該都有過這樣的經驗。」

Other NBA superstars, including Irving's "Uncle Drew" movie co-star Shaquille
O'Neal, entered the flat-Earth fray in recent months. O'Neal once echoed
Irving's stance, that the Earth is flat.
其他的NBA明星，包括與KI電影"Uncle Drew"裡一起演的Shaquille O'neal也在最近幾個月
加入地平論的論戰。O'neal一度回應了KI的地平論。

"But I was playing," O'Neal told AP earlier this year.
「但是我只是鬧著玩，」O"neal年初的時候跟記者說。

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